Medicine Wheel Plain & Simple: The Only Book You'll Ever Need (Plain & Simple Series)

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A wonderful book! Deborah Durbin lays out the Medicine Wheel in an easy-to-understand format, making the information accessible to anyone who is curious about the Native American astrological system. Durbin discusses dates, signs, and totems and even includes corresponding stones, plants, colors, and clans. I cannot overemphasize how much interesting information she has managed to pack into this little gem of a book.

The premise of this book is a fib and hoax as there are hundreds of cultures indigenous to the Americas and thousands of groups who interpret those cultures differently. Of those who do have a medicine wheel tradition, we do not use it as "astrology". Affinities related to it are mixed, personal and unique to people's personalities, situations, and individual development, and people from outside the culture aren't a part of that because the barrier between land and person is blurred, and outsiders do not have this inborn connection. Essentially the wheel is a concept of ethnosyncretic spiritual systems and unless you're born into it you cannot "be" it in any way. This is unlike the major religions of the world where you can usually observe some sort of membership or conversion process freely without regard to place. Additionally not all cultures that use a medicine wheel use it the same way, and some are comprised of completely different concepts, associations, symbols, and whether or not it plays a role in theologies.

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